Out and About (Terra, Strada)

Oregon is a beautiful place. Great place to ride this time of year. Oregonians are, with but a few exceptions, good friendly people. They just can't spell.

Great photos !. I like the idea of posting the GPS coords of the photos too. This could even start a game of Terra Tag... other riders can ride their Terras to the same locations.

(By the way, on a PC, hold the ALT key and type 248 using the keypad number (not the numbers at the top of the keyboard) to insert a °.)

Good head turns! Is this an ARC? Looks like one of the exercises.

I took a day off work today and went for a ride to the Kinglake National Park instead. I'd have liked to have explored more of the roads but I didn't get away until lunchtime and mid afternoon rain clouds started closing in so I headed home (Ironically the sun came out when I got home). You'll see lots of black trees and new growth. 4 years ago a devastating bushfire came through this area and large areas of this park were completely burned, nothing left but the charred remains. The fires that day killed over 150 people.

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Followed a 4WD track down to a creek where I had to turn the bike around and go back. The road on the other side of the creek was steep and rutted and well above my abilities.


The main road through the national park.


Just near home, the sky cleared, but a rainbow is visible (well it was more visible to me than it is in this pic).

Doubt it.... The roads would need to look like the Gaza Strip to keep those buggers in the bush...

Yea the organization, RideChicago, called it the intermediate rider course....equivalent to MSF ARC I believe.

Nah, like Rob said it's almost impossible to keep roos off the road. There are a few freeways which have high fences for that reason but only on some very busy highways. That fence is around a water catchment for a reservoir which supplies water to Melbourne. It's there to keep people out. .

Started as just a ride to Brown County. Spill-water at Crooked Creek Lake, next are pictures from Northeast side of Hickory Ridge. I got in deeper then I thought. The water wasn't the problem, I didn't feel I was going to get up the big rutted climb that I don't have pictures from. You should have seen it, it was straight up with 5 foot deep ruts.....Oh well, last picture is on the way home.

Breakin' in the new Terra in the Mount Hood National Forest. Had lunch here in the shade while enjoying the view.





After stopping at the bottom of this slide I thought it wasn't such a great idea. I didn't think I'd get enough momentum to moving and keep the Sahara hooked up to get my fat tail up the hill. Worked out fine. Walked down to get a picture of my bike at the top and ended up loosing traction in my riding boots and hitting the dirt after all. Should have stayed on the bike. It's steeper than the picture makes it out to be.







This poor guy let his mind wander. I ran into the tow guys that were going to do the recovery. They were going to use 4 - wheelers to pull him out, and if that didn't work run an excavator in. Tow operator was predicting a $2k recovery. He and his wife walked 4.5 miles up to a peak and ended up getting picked up at 1AM. They had cell phone coverage the whole time, but weren't sure where they were so it hampered efforts to get them.






And on to the waterfall shot...



And a bit of late 1800's architecture...



And a closing shot of the forest's namesake...



Really excellent day here in Oregon.

HuskyDude suggested I add these coordinates 45°22'24.40"N 121°41'44.38"W

And I put up a track at:

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2210246

some great pics there krussell !!! Thanks for sharing.

Long time reader, first time poster here... I had a blast riding the Terra to the northernmost point of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near Copper Harbor. This photo was taken on Brockway Mountain, overlooking Lake Superior.

Click for location: http://goo.gl/maps/fRdp9

Here is an out of season photo I found of the road that took me there!

Hey HuskyDude when ever I enter your GPS coordinates in Google Earth it takes me to Manila Philipines. Thought you were just north of me?

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It's because you're pasting in his coordinates and he has an * where the ° should be and google can't interpret that properly.
Paste this instead N 51°9'4.65" W 120°51'43.15

Every time I crossed over Deadman river I would look up that valley and wonder where is goes. Now I do. Gotta had up there one day.